Principal Product Manager - AI & Efficiency

Schedule: Full Time Job Type: Hybrid Salary Type: Salary Req #: 3067 About the Role As the AI & Optimization PM , you’ll leverage the best of AI technology to ensure smooth & predictable delivery of shipments for our customers. Logistics is a complex problem, where minutes and timing mean millions for our customers. This team builds AI-first solutions with real-world impact for tens of billions in freight each year. You’ll work on problems ranging from building AI platforms that support hundreds of use cases across Uber Freight, to improving ops efficiency through AI-native solutions, to helping customers gain insights into how they can improve using the latest reasoning models. What the candidate will do • Product Vision and Strategy: Define a clear product vision and strategy for the team, identifying both short-term and long-term initiatives to create an effective product roadmap. • User-Centric Approach: Translate user needs into product requirements by deeply understanding user problems and business opportunities - formulating hypotheses, and articulating desired outcomes • Quality & Velocity: Leverage AI throughout research, prototyping & build to deliver high-quality product experiences. • Communication: Effectively communicate product plans, tradeoffs, and results to a diverse audience, including internal partner teams, 3rd party partners, executives, end-users, and external customers • Innovation: Lead the discovery, development, and adoption of innovative features and experiences that improve outcomes for Uber Freight, our customers, and external partners • Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Collaborate with a strong team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and user researchers, setting clear team deliverables, defining the roadmap, and driving execution. • Cultivate Team Culture: Build and nurture a strong team culture centered around collaboration, execution, and delivering results. Basic Qualifications • Minimum of 6+ years of Product Management experience developing and deploying world-class products that scale • Data-first approach to problem solving • You are both an executor and advocate for solving the right problems • You take problems as opportunities, and you lead through rallying and influence Preferred Qualifications • Leveraging SQL and AI research strategies to pull your own data and insights • You are well-versed in reinforcement learning, and have developed and deployed ML optimization models or AI solutions in production • You have built and scaled AI/ML platforms that support multiple downstream use cases across teams • You have shipped production products leveraging large language models (LLMs) and modern reasoning models • You have developed in the logistics industry or similar marketplace environments (think travel marketplace, booking) • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Comfortability with presenting to, recommending changes, and pushing back on executive stakeholders. Benefits & Compensation for U.S. Employees Employees working more than 30 hours in the US at Uber Freight are eligible for benefits like a company sponsored health plan, dental and vision benefits, 401k match, financial and mental wellness benefits, parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance and more. US based employees may also be eligible for a performance or sales incentive bonus program, participation in Uber Freight equity awards, and other types of compensation depending upon the role. About Uber Freight Uber Freight helps companies move goods more reliably and efficiently. We bring together the technology, people, and transportation capacity they need, using real‑time data from millions of shipments to guide smarter decisions. That helps customers